Society and Reality

I just finished “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I must say I am deeply impressed. This book brings to life contemporary Islam as a religion and culture in East Africa and Saudi Arabia in a personal way that gives one a better sense of the reality than any academic book can.
Ali’s diagnosis is that Islam […]

…citizenship is not an entitlement program. We all know about rights the inalienable rights, responsibilities are inescapable. Rights were explicit in the Constitution, the responsibilities were implicit.

RAHM EMANUEL Aspen Ideas Festival 2007

When I hear women complain that they are powerless, I am perplexed. Women have more power than they think, but that power is not organized or concentrated. If all the women of the world organized and decided and agreed on what kind of women and men they wanted to raise and orchestrated a child rearing […]

Is not idolatry like standing between two parallel mirrors? Once you get past one image, another lies behind it ad infinitum. And are not abstract idols the most attractive precisely because they make little reflection and lead us to believe they are real?